3 Best Solution For Blog Posts Interlinking in WordPress

Interlinking of the blog post is one important parameter of on page SEO. It improves the contextual score of your blog & helps in ranking higher in the search engine. I have seen many bloggers relies mostly on related posts section for interlinking and this is not the best solution. To make your On Page SEO and On site SEO strong, you should have proper internal linking between your blog posts.

In WordPress, there are various ways to interlink your blog posts, and in this guide I will share all the best available methods that you can use right away. Most of the solutions listed below are free and only one of them is paid, which I personally use for all my blogs.

Before I share WordPress interlinking solutions, let me quickly share what are the direct benefits of interlinking your articles:

Best WordPress interlinking plugins and tricks:

This plugin is for automatic interlinking of blog articles. It automatically links your taxonomies (Tags and categories) and you can set your own rules for automatic interlinking. For example, you can set words like “Make money online” should link to any specific blog post, it will automatically interlink old and future posts containing word “Make money online” with your specific link.

Like this, you can have unlimited linking and especially for blogs with huge content, this plugin is a time-saver. The premium version of plugin offers caching feature, so that your blog doesn’t slow down. This is a paid plugin and cost about $149 but worth every penny of yours.

This plugin is interesting as it adds Facebook style mentions to quickly add internal links in your blog post. This is a plug and play plugin to add internal links to your blog post. I just tested it and loved it instantly. By default this plugin suggest from posts only, you can configure it to show suggestions from your pages or other custom post type.

WordPress also offers default feature to let you quickly interlink your blog post. When ever you select and text and click on Hyperlink to add a link, you can search for your published post from there and link it directly with anchor text. This is a default feature of WordPress and it’s useful.

Conclusion: Which is best plugin for Blog posts interlinking?

I use SEO smart link and Yoast SEO Pro for ShoutMeLoud. Mentionable is a new plugin and it looks promising, since ShoutMeLoud has more than 2.5K+ posts, I haven’d tried. For blogs with fewer posts, Mentionable could be a real life saver.

There are few more plugins that are available, but these are best 4 solutions which you can use for WordPress interlinking. Do let me know what strategy you are following for blog posts interlinking?

Don’t forget to share this guide with other bloggers, as it would help them to understand the importance of interlinking and how to do it.

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COMMENTS ( 41 )

Initially I relied on a plugin that I found in WP directory of plugins when searched for an interlinking tool. That plugin turned out to be a hell literally. May be, either I didn’t know how to use it or it was by default complicated. It picked out any term from a said post and interlinked whatever the link from within the similar category. The plugin even didn’t spare ‘and’ ‘or’ and ‘with’ . When I noticed the chaos, I uninstalled it.

Now, as you suggested me these 4, let me check if they could be life saving. Thanks for pioneering. Have a blast Harsh.

Thanks for such great advice, one thing I want to know, when ever I use interlinking, I get a new comment in comments section which appears this post link as new comment. Should I approve that comments? Did you get what I mean? In other words, when I interlink my older post in my new post. and publish it, I got a comment for moderation. Why I get this and Is it harmful to approve or not?

Harsh, thanks for your answer, but why I should use No self ping plugin. Is there not other way, I am asking this because I don’t think every website is using this? I already have lot of plugins in use but will it not effect on my page load speed when I have lots of plugins.

How other blogs deal with it? and sometimes I tried to find plugins from others blog views source, I can’t see they are using much plugins but they are all set.. Please guide me. My 6 months old blog ranking is suddenly decreases without any error in webmaster tools, I think its because I am doing inter post linking a lot with self ping as well.

Nice post, but that SEO Smart Link Premium is extremely expensive… Almost fell of my chair when I saw the price! I am looking for an alternative to SEO Auto Links because it adds upt to 5 seconds to page load time… Any other cheaper suggestions?

It would be really nice for a plugin to suggest for every word in a post if there is a post title containing that word (or a variation of that word). For example if my post has the word “weight” in it, so it would be nice to recommend the “How to Lose weight Fast” post title that I already have posted.

SEO Smart links does not appear to have a contact page. Does anyone know if smart links will work with thrive themes? I have also noticed that they have not updated their plugin on wordpress.org in two years.

I have to ask one more thing. plugins normally are not magic pills for success, so are there any options in smart links to use % number of anchor/links through out content? Repeat link using the same anchor link can be harm to your seo efforts.for instance once your reach a certain % on using that anchor, then it would not use that keyword again, just a thought, i think one of the biggest issues is using the same anchor/links over and over; someone once told me, never use the same anchor more then a few times.

Hello Harsh,
I did some post linking on my site, but i make them all open in new tab. Is this good or bad ?
And on what type of links should we do open in same tab and open on new tab ? please let me know

Avoid SEO Smart links – I had the premium version and it was fine at first, but no updates over time led to problems. Now zero assistance and it slowed my site right down. I removed the plugin and saw an instant improvement in page load times. Total waste on what is one of the most expensive plugins ever released.

Hi.. Harsh.. I want to know about the post interlinking with same anchor text can use within another post with the same anchor text? Is it affected by google? Is it good or bad practice? Can you please help me.?

Again a great article. Every time I feel the need of any plugin or I look for any solution, I just start searching shoutmeloud and I never get disappointed. WordPress default search and interlink is the best solution for a blog with less no. of articles.

I think use of plugins for internal linking is not a good idea. It may increase web page load time. It does make sense to add links manually with choice of your own anchor text. Why should we use plugin for this short work?

Hi Harsh, Well SEO Smart Plugin look like it is worth trying. Mentionable Plugin heard first time. Do these plugins have any bugs or are they complimentary to other popular plugins? I think i read somewhere. Anyways, it is a good post. 🙂

Great post, Harsh. I’ve always been doing interlinking of posts on my own, but since I have a lot of posts now, it’s has become very difficult for me to choose the right posts to interlink to. But it seems like the Premium version of SEO Smart Links can make my job a lot easier. I have used the free version of the plugin in the past, but didn’t find mheyself using it thereafter. I gotta give the pro version a shot now. Thanks a lot for this guide, really helpful for me 🙂

I don’t know much about them. So far used the WP default linking method only. And I am very happy with that as I can search for my desired keyword I want to link, instead of going for auto link.
Very nice information shared…:)

I always wonder how you guys interlink in your blog post. As Manually its quite impossible as you have thousands of articles in your blog. Now you have made clear how doing this. I really thank to you.

Hello Harsh, nice list you have there, its rather unfortunate that i wasnt doing this for so long now, only discovered of recent and even at that, have been doing it all manually from the WordPress link editor.

Thanks alot for the share, will make it all easier for me.
Thanks Again, Godwill